Good to know that there are some other people that do this in high school. Really great project too, I like the use of auto body filler to cover the helmet, as well as the use of cheap and avaliable materials like carboard instead of something expensive like cnc cut or 3-d printed parts. Nice job!

That was a fun project! I'm sure he makes a big impression wearing that while on a DJ gig. It'd be fun to add some kind of voice-following algorithm to the display, so the visor looks like Kit, from the old Knight Rider TV show. Tack on a voice-altering chip and you could go totally robotic! That's the delight of projects like this -- it gets the imagination going.

Bondo was cool, Chuck. When I was young, I worked in an automaotive store that sold Bondo. A lot of lazy body guys would slap on tons of cheap Bondo rather than doing the more difficult work of pulling dents and smoothing the metal surface. That meant if you hit a good pot hole, whole chunks of Bondo would fall off your car.

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